Improvement in switch-holders



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A. C. PENNY AND MINOR SPICER, OF UNADILLA FORKS, NEW

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Letters Patent No. 93,341, dated August 3, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWITCH-HOLDERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part-of the same. y.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, A. C. PENNY and Mmon Sr1GER, of` Unadilla Forks, in the county of Otsego, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Switch-Holders; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, in which- A Figure 1 represents a side view of onrswitch-holder.

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the saine.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction of a machine for holding a cows tail during the process of milking;l and to this end, we make a stool with a vertical post at one end, the said post beingl furnished with a corrugated cam, acting on a co'rrugated base in the manner set forth.

A represents a stool, which may be made circular, with a neck, B, extending from it.

he stool A is supported by two hinged legs, d d, which fold inward.

A third leg, d, is made to support' the neck B, and intended also to fold inward.

vIn order Vto keep the legs in a vertical position, when the stool is in use, the metal rods s s s are provided, oue end of each of said rods being hooked in an eye at the bottom of stool A, and the other end hooked in an eye in its appropriate lee. (See fig. 2.)

D represents a vertical post, hinged at bottom to thel end of neck B, and designed to fold back on stool A `when the stool is to be transported.

In order to keep the post D rigid while the milkingprocess is going on, the rod g is provided, one end of which plays in an eye onthe side of post D, and th l G designates a cam, pivoted 1n block E, the said cani vbeing corrugated at its under side.

Fastened to the top of post D is the corrugated cappiece F, which is concave on its upper surface, so as to receive the convex surface of cam G.

The cam O is operated by the rod fm, which rests, at its upper end, on a shoulder in shank n, and is al- 'lowedto play in staple on said shank.

In the act of using our switch-holder, the operator will sit on the stool A, with the head of the cow to his right, and the tail to the left. He will now draw the switch of the animals tail under the cam G, where it will be held firmly between the cam and the cappiece. When the tail is to be released, it is done by raising the cam with rod fm. A

.Having thus described our invention,

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the stool A, with hinged legs d d d, the `switch-holder, consisting of the post D, toothed cam O, block E, and rod m, all arranged to operate as herein shown and described. l

In testimonythatwe claim the foregoing as our own, we aix our signatures, inpresence of two witnesses..

' A. C. PENNY. Witnesses: 'MINOR SPIOER.

E. F. Hocronklss,

WM. H. WILcox. 

